Steven Reich

Steven F. Reich is an American attorney who currently serves as 3M Company’s executive vice president and chief counsel, enterprise risk management. Reich joined 3M in 2022 after nearly seven years at Deutsche Bank AG. At Deutsche Bank, Reich served as general counsel for the Americas and then as CEO of the Bank’s main regulated entity in the US, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. From 2011 to 2013, he served as associate deputy attorney general in the United States Department of Justice.

Early life and education Reich's mother was a social worker and his father was an internist who practiced medicine at a public health clinic in the Bronx. Reich graduated from Columbia College in 1983 and began his career as an associate at Covington & Burling following his graduation from Columbia Law School in 1986.

Reich returned to private practice in 2013 as a partner at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. While at Akin Gump, Reich was selected to be Special Counsel to a Special Committee of the Utah House of Representatives charged with determining whether Utah Attorney General John Swallow had engaged in misconduct. Swallow resigned during the pendency of the investigation led by Reich.

In 2015, Reich was selected by Deutsche Bank AG to serve as its General Counsel for the Americas, effective April 2015. He negotiated Deutsche Bank's resolution of the RMBS investigation with the Department of Justice in late 2016. In 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported that Reich, as a member of the Bank's reputational risk committee, had opposed a controversial decision to sell real estate located in Silicon Valley to a Russian businessman.

In late 2020, Deutsche Bank announced that Reich had been promoted to serve as CEO and a board member of its key legal entities in the United States and to the position of Head of Strategy & Governance Initiatives for the Americas.